anyone have any knowledge of or connections with this Pears, Peairs, Pearse, Pearce, Pierce family???? thanks!!! Perth Amboy (Book E, #2, p56) records the "sale from Robert Letts Hooper, of the county of Somerset, Gent, to George Warne, of Perth Amboy, yeoman, a tract of land at Cranberry Brook. Beginning at a maple sapling standing on the North Side of Cranberry Brook marked on four sides and stands by the mouth of a run water that comes from Lewis Pears plantation and emptyes into the said Cranberry Brook, thence N5 degrees E 67 1/2 chains to the land of James Layton, thence W. N. W. 45 chains and 3 rods, thence S. W. 60 chains more or less along the markt line to Cranberry Brook, thence up the stream thereof to where it first began. Lying to contain 310 acres." Dated 2/22/1736. Lewis Pears, d5/15/1728, was of Annwell/ Amwell Twp, Hunterdon Co. All from Will Abstracts - Washington Co., Pa. page 2 PEARCE, JAMES Yogohania Co., VA. (page 6) DATED: 15 Feb. 1778 PROBATED: 25 March 1778 WIT: James Wall; Joseph Warne; Walter Wall BENE: WIFE: Sarah; SONS: Andrew Pearce; Lewis Pearce, James Pearce, Stephen Pearce, Jonathan Pearce ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.